Have you ever regretted taking the postgraduate entrance examination?

Well, blindly follow the trend when taking the postgraduate entrance examination. Unfortunately, I was born in Shandong province, and my thoughts are conservative. There is a saying in Shandong that there are three kinds of unfilial: "One does not take the exam, the other does not take the exam, and the three-step postgraduate entrance examination". As a college graduate who didn't pass the undergraduate course in Shandong Province, I never thought that one day I would be a graduate student.

When I first landed, I wanted to find a job after graduation, because after all, I am not young, but I can't stand the influence of ordinary undergraduate students around me. When I first entered the undergraduate school, I saw that other students were preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination. I had some ideas in my head at that time, but I gave up immediately. I know what level I am, and I'm not afraid of jokes. Level 4 hasn't passed yet. You can imagine my situation at that time. The most important thing is that we have to take a math test in our major, and my math foundation is limited to the little advanced math foundation in college. Linear algebra and probability theory have no idea what it is. Let me take the postgraduate entrance examination and take a hammer.

But parents in Shandong always follow the trend and watch other people's children take the postgraduate entrance examination. How can they have children of their own? I clearly remember that at the end of the first year of undergraduate course, my parents called you almost every day to advise you to take the postgraduate entrance examination, but they didn't want to think about whether their children had the strength and ability. Later, I had no choice but to agree first. In order to prove my determination, I asked my family to buy an online course in New Oriental for two years. I remember the online class seller asked me if I wanted to take the exam. I didn't have any goals at that time. I just said, learn first.

Summer vacation is coming. If I don't take the postgraduate entrance examination, it will be my last summer vacation. At that time, our teacher said that you should start to set goals and prepare professional courses in the target colleges. I was thinking, I can't stay in Shandong all my life, I want to go out. Although I didn't expect much, in case I chose Guidian as the target institution in view of my own strength and had no experience at that time, I bought a professional course textbook of Guidian on Taobao, which cost nearly 300 yuan, but it was useless and I graduated. I have no idea what happened that year. Your school's enrollment brochure was issued very late, and the exam outline was issued at the end of September, and suddenly you changed your professional courses. I read the catalogue of enrollment majors three times at that time, and I really didn't believe my eyes. I don't know why, the professional courses were different that year, and they were changed back the next year.

I remember that there were still more than 80 days before the postgraduate entrance examination. I was almost desperate at this time, but I felt that I had spent all my money and didn't want to give up. So I spent the whole 10 month looking for a school and studied several professional courses hard. At the beginning of registration, I remembered that a classmate was studying in a double non-school in Qingdao, so I contacted him and reported directly to his school. But after studying for a period of time, I found that I couldn't go on studying, so I had no choice but to consider changing schools. I happened to see the professional course questions of another double-non-school in Qingdao, and found that it was quite simple for me, so I switched to the school I am studying now about a week before the registration system was closed.

I don't know if I'm lucky. My math score happened to be the national line of that year. When I met the epidemic and caught up with the expansion of enrollment, I went ashore in a daze. Others are happy to see the admission results, but I am very sad. Seeing a bunch of tutors' research directions, no one has heard of them and no one wants to do them. When choosing a tutor at the beginning of school, there is no double election meeting. I was almost sold as a free labor force, and my classmates around me have already worked and are still spending their parents' money. I was in my twenties and had no financial resources. The gap just came out.

Anyway, it was all kinds of maladjustment, so I took English again. Coupled with all kinds of disappointments, I was seriously depressed in the first semester. At that time, I wondered every day why I had to study hard for the postgraduate entrance examination. Why is postgraduate entrance examination so difficult? I thought for a long time without an answer. After a winter vacation, I gradually got used to it. In the second semester, I went to the school's job fair and found it really difficult to find a job in my direction, because graduate students depend on your research direction, not just your major.

In fact, it gets narrower and narrower as you go up. Undergraduate students only look at majors, and graduate students look at your direction. So now I have made many of my possibilities impossible, but I can't help it. I chose my own path. Even if I regret crying, I will accompany him until graduation, which is really a relief.